Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Swallowing Monster: Oral Literary Allegories in Rwanda and Its Diaspora,
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American Folklore Society, Minneapolis MN,
Friday, October 20, 2017
Conference Papers & Invited Talks
’There was Death, But May It Never Return’: Oral Literature and NGO Arts Interventions in a Rwandan Refugee Camp,
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African Studies Workshop, Harvard University,
Monday, October 16, 2017
Herd-less Herder Praise Poetry and Weapon-less Warrior Orature: Oral Literary Renaissance in Rwanda's Refugee Camps,
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African Literature Association, New Haven CT,
Thursday, June 15, 2017
'It’s Not Our First Time To Arrive Here': The Oral Literature of Exile, and the Redefinition of uRwanda from its Refugee Camps,
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African Studies Association, Washington DC,
Friday, December 2, 2016
“Once Upon a Time in the Land of Never Again: Storytelling and Survival in Post Genocide Rwanda”,
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African Studies Seminar, Emory University,
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
The Sorrows of Citizenship: Storytelling, Sociality, and Belonging from Below in a Rwandan ‘Village of Unity and Reconciliation’,
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African Studies Association, San Diego CA,
Thursday, November 19, 2015
'Lies' and Reconciliation: Post-Conflict Storytelling in Rwanda,
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Institute for African Development at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University,
Thursday, November 12, 2015
'It Happened, But May It Never Happen Again’: The Politics of the Poetics of Storytelling in Post-Genocide Rwanda,
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American Folklore Society (AFS), Long Beach CA,
Saturday, October 17, 2015
’Nothingness Nested on a Cliff and the Wind Blew Away Its Eggs’: A Palimpsestic Translation of a Kinyarwanda Folktale Opening,
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African Languages in the Disciplines Conference, Harvard University,
Thursday, April 23, 2015
“In the Belly of a Benevolent Beast: A Remembrance of the Transformational Department of African Languages and Literature on the Eve of its Own Transformation.”,
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Fiftieth Anniversary Alumni Symposium. Department of African Cultural Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison,
Friday, April 10, 2015